From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7ABMIR09399 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:22:18 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (u-187-21.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.21.187]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7ABMCV09375 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:22:12 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7ABKul24055; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:20:56 +0200 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:20:56 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Salisbury, Roger" Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: /usr/bin/file Message-ID: <20010810132056.D23866@bacchus.dhis.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Roger.Salisbury@team.telstra.com on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:59:59PM +1000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:59:59PM +1000, Salisbury, Roger wrote: > how would I update /usr/bin/file ?? > ./configure spits this out > > *** Warning: the command libtool uses to detect shared libraries, > *** /usr/bin/file, produces output that libtool cannot recognize. > *** The result is that libtool may fail to recognize shared libraries > *** as such. This will affect the creation of libtool libraries that > *** depend on shared libraries, but programs linked with such libtool > *** libraries will work regardless of this problem. Nevertheless, you > *** may want to report the problem to your system manager and/or to > *** bug-libtool@gnu.org That's a libtool bug. My RH 7.0 port has the fix. Ralf